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Chief Rabbi composes prayer for Manchester victims

The prayer has been distributed to rabbis and Jewish communities around the country, with the recommendation that it be recited this coming Shabbat.

The JC Leader: Clarity and reality...Facebook hate

The Jewish Chronicle Leader column, May 26 2017

Letters, 25th May

Dora Hirsh, Steven Blumgart, Michael White, Doron Zieve, David Wainwright, Daniel J. Levy, Steven Sands, Bernard Wasserstein and Dr Stanley Jacobs share their views with JC readers

Emma Kingston joins cast of Fiddler

Labour man grilled at synagogue hustings

Labour candidate Fabian Hamilton fielded repeated questions over Jew-hatred in the meeting on Thursday

Dweck's speech is as brave as it is nuanced

Rabbi Dweck holds out the possibility there may be expressions of affection between men that may be permissible.

Adam Ben Ezra releases solo album

Pin Drop is his debut solo album - and it's performed in front of a live audience

Ukip candidate calls for shechita changes

Nigel Sussman denied Ukip’s reversal two years ago of its policy to ban religious slaughter was prompted by a fear of alienating the Jewish community.

Communal leaders acknowledge mistake on Zionism

With the benefit of hindsight, movement for a Jewish homeland in early 20th century wouldn't have been rejected

The new reality

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the football season passes. So intense and all consuming whilst it is present, and yet we now enter a 12-week abyss filled only with commercial tours to far flung money pots and tedious transfer speculation. Those 12 weeks feel like an age.

Mehta bows out, but it’s not goodbye

'After 50 years I think an orchestra should be handled by a good successor — hopefully.'

Cinema, croissants and queues

Michael Etherton from UK Jewish Film gives us a peek at life on the other side of the velvet rope

The terror threat is real, but the biggest risk is that we over-react

Our security services have been successful at stopping the vast majority of plots

Election 2017: Leeds hustings

Heated clashes over antisemitism dominated an election event attended by 150 people at a Leeds synagogue.

A tale of two general elections

How much has politics changed since Rina Wolfson first cast her vote 20 years ago?

What’s it in for Newmark?

Corbyn’s revolutionary politics surprises no one, of course. But I was genuinely flabbergasted to see Jeremy Newmark — the sensible, centre-left, head of the Jewish Labour Movement — standing in my constituency of Finchley and Golders Green, writes David Byers.